On Linux and cs_CZ.UTF-8 locale is thousand separator set to NO-BREAK SPACE (UTF-8: 0xC2 0xA0).

But ThousandSeparator variable is defined as Char. Fpc sets ThousandSeparator=0xA0 and kylix ThousandSeparator=0xC2.

Any ideas how to correctly solve it?

Petr

2009/10/2 :

This is a know problem reported by me some months ago. Unfortunately there is no fix in FPC until it full supports unicode with a char > 1 byte.

In the mean time, you will have to define your own locale constants with correct type sizes and manually do formatting. A pain in the butt, I know.

Either we define it as wide- or UTF32Char which should fit most needs or we just use a string.

Why not use IFDEF-ed definition *Separators as strings for backward compatibility.

{$IFDEF SEPARATORS_AS_STRINGS}
  ThousandSeparator: string;
  ...
{$ELSE}
  ThousandSeparator: Char;
{$ENDIF}

Perhaps somebody do not want to use Char=WideChar in whole project. Maybe I.

In the mean time, you will have to define your own locale constants with correct type sizes and manually do formatting. A pain in the butt, I know.

For me I solve it by hack replacing 0xC2 or 0xA0 to normal space 0x20.

Petr